[CF-Devel] Command line utils?

[Mark Wedel]

Jochen Suckfuell wrote:
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      The feature you are looking for is already implemented.
     
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      Try "telnet cfserver 13327". Then type "oldsocketmode". You can now issue the
     
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      commands hiscore, logs, maps, motd, players, version, who.
     
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      To be allowed to use tell and shout, you must first login by typing "name
     
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      Playername Password" (where Playername is an existing player).
     
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      You can close the telnet connection with "quit". All this can be accomplished
     
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      by a script.
     
     
 Current, crossfire does try to cleanup when it gets a sighup signal (ie, save
players).  But I think it will still do less cleanup than a shutdown would.  I
think the main difference is that while sighup will save all the players, it
won't save any maps the players are currently in.  This is only of relevance if
RECYCLE_TEMP_MAPS is being used - if you don't use that, there is no difference.

 Now it wouldn't be too hard to make it so that if it gets sigusr1, it calls
shutdown (or does a shutdown like thing), and then flush the maps out.  If
people think this is desirable, let me know and I'll see about doing it.